International Journal on Cybernetics & Informatics ( IJCI) Vol.1, No.1, Feburay 2012
BERKELEY INTERNET NAME DOMAIN (BIND) Shelena Soosay Nathan, Sanjaav Selan Mohan, Adelin Rose Harudas and Kashif Nisar, InterNetWorks Research Lab School of Computing, College of Arts and Sciences Universiti Utara Malaysia 06010 UUM Sintok, MALAYSIA shelen_smileystarz@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the internet or a private network. It associates several of information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. Moreover, DNS distributes the responsibility of assigning domain names and mapping those names to IP addresses by designating authorities name servers for each domain. In general, the DNS stores other types of information, such as the list of mail servers that accept email for a given Internet domain. It also specifies the technical functionality of this database service and as a part of the Internet Protocol Suite. The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is the most widely used DNS software. It was originally written by four graduate students at the Computer System Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB). The original name is Berkeley Internet Name Domain. Current solution to select the proper operating system that is BIND for DNS server with configures the server in to the BIND operating system. Besides that, used to run the server and find out the DNS server IP addresses
KEYWORDS BIND, DNS server, DNS protocols, RAD, UCB
1. INTRODUCTION BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the DNS protocols and provides an openly redistributable reference implementation of the major components of the Domain Name System, including Domain Name System server, Domain Name System resolver library and tools for managing and verifying the proper operation of the DNS server. It provides a robust and stable platform on top of which organizations can build distributed computing systems with the fully compliant with published DNS standards. Moreover, BIND is open source software that implements the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols for the internet. The BIND DNS Server, “named�, is used on the vast majority of name serving machines on the Internet, providing a robust and stable architecture on top of which an organization's naming architecture can be built [1-4]. The resolver library included in the BIND distribution provides the standard APIs for translation between domain names and Internet addresses and is intended to be linked with applications requiring name service. Besides that, it is reference for implementation of those protocols, but it 1